Things to do in Warrnambool?

[Ahern2Boof]

I'm heading to Warrnambool for the first time this week (via Ballarat on Monday night) and was just wondering if there is much to do? Going with my girlfriend, we've got accommodation booked but we're sort of going there with an open-mind and just finding our own fun. Obviously there's a beach, however the weather doesn't look too great apart from 24 degrees on Wednesday. If anyone can recommend places to visit, good restaurants or pubs to eat at and, by contrast, where to avoid? That'd be great, thanks.

 

[FreoGirl]

went there years ago and it was very pretty, but cold.

 

[PuntRoadEnd]

Leave

 

[Falchoon]

everybody Ive ever met from Warrnambool has mentioned Kermonds and their hamburgers

 

[Engimal]

I'm heading to Warrnambool for the first time this week (via Ballarat on Monday night) and was just wondering if there is much to do? Going with my girlfriend, we've got accommodation booked but we're sort of going there with an open-mind and just finding our own fun. Obviously there's a beach, however the weather doesn't look too great apart from 24 degrees on Wednesday. If anyone can recommend places to visit, good restaurants or pubs to eat at and, by contrast, where to avoid? That'd be great, thanks.

I didn't find Warrnambool all that interesting. Out of all the towns on the Great Ocean Road, it was probably the least interesting. Too much like a general city.

 

[Catfish Alley]

The golf courses are pretty good. If you're not into that maybe just check their tourism website:
http://visitwarrnambool.com.au/things-to-do/attractions/#.UlMwwNLMCSo

 

[Ahern2Boof]

Got here early this afternoon. Having a great time.

 

[00Stinger]

The best thing to do in Warnambool is leave

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

Catch a train to melbourne.


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[Bumpswithagrin]

Why did you choose Warrnambool for a weekend away? (Nothing against Warrnambool as such but there are surely more interesting destinations).

 

[Ahern2Boof]

Why did you choose Warrnambool for a weekend away? (Nothing against Warrnambool as such but there are surely more interesting destinations).

Not really, we didn't have a huge budget and wanted something coastal, we had a friend that lived there and we decided what the hell, why not. Ended up being a very good time, went on the Shipwrecked tour, went to the beach many times, played on the Lake Pertobe playgrounds (very fun, even for a 19 y.o!) and played mini-golf. Wasn't a bad place like a few of you on here said it was.

 

[Selective Retention]

I went down for the jumps racing carnival last year. Spent most of my time at the races but looked a decent town to me considering the bad rap it gets. Reminded me of Devonport.

 

[carloss]

Got here early this afternoon. Having a great time.

Step out of the hotel room

 

[bresker]

everybody Ive ever met from Warrnambool has mentioned Kermonds and their hamburgers

Vastly overrated I found.

The Thai restaurant does an excellent pad thai, better than most you'll find in Melbourne.

You could get drunk at the Whalers, I did so when I was about 26 and did sex with this psychologist lady who was a sexy older lady. Christ that was 14 years ago, she's probably reaching retirement age soon

 

[skilts]

Because I married a girl from Warrnambool, I spent a disproportionate amount of time there in the 70s and 80s. It is one of the windiest places on the planet, all year round. The thing which kept me going back there was that my father-in-law was an amateur fisherman. As a consequence, he had access to the finest crayfish (from the professionals) I've ever eaten. We ate cray every time I went there.

I found it to be depressingly similar in its social life to all other Victorian country towns. Extraordinarily, I got to stay every weekend I was there at the local psychiatric hospital (which I'm led to believe no longer exists). My father-in-law was the Head of Psychiatric Nursing for Western Victoria, and resided onsite.

Not such a bad joint, if you can endure the wind.

 

[The Dice Man]

And the psychos no doubt

 

[skilts]

And the psychos no doubt

They were the sane ones.

 

[bresker]

Because I married a girl from Warrnambool, I spent a disproportionate amount of time there in the 70s and 80s. It is one of the windiest places on the planet, all year round. The thing which kept me going back there was that my father-in-law was an amateur fisherman. As a consequence, he had access to the finest crayfish (from the professionals) I've ever eaten. We ate cray every time I went there.

I found it to be depressingly similar in its social life to all other Victorian country towns. Extraordinarily, I got to stay every weekend I was there at the local psychiatric hospital (which I'm led to believe no longer exists). My father-in-law was the Head of Psychiatric Nursing for Western Victoria, and resided onsite.

Not such a bad joint, if you can endure the wind.

By strange coincidence, I'm getting married to girl from Port Fairy/Warnambool in two weeks, and her mum was a psychiatric nurse in the same hospital. It has indeed closed down, as her mum now works in the Alfred in Melbourne.

Her dad is also an amateur cray fisherman, although he doesn't do it so much now. We also have access to crays in Port Fairy.

I hope it isn't too windy in a couple of weeks as I'm getting married on the beach. Probably will be.

 

[skilts]

By strange coincidence, I'm getting married to girl from Port Fairy/Warnambool in two weeks, and her mum was a psychiatric nurse in the same hospital. It has indeed closed down, as her mum now works in the Alfred in Melbourne.

Her dad is also an amateur cray fisherman, although he doesn't do it so much now. We also have access to crays in Port Fairy.

I hope it isn't too windy in a couple of weeks as I'm getting married on the beach. Probably will be.

Your mum would definitely know Joe Gwynne. He was a lovely man, who died far too early, at 57. Luckily, he got to see the the grandson we gave him, who was born a week before he died. He was at a conference at Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital when he died, having his morning shave. He was dead before he hit the floor, from heart disease. Identifying his body at the mortuary was one of the more difficult things I've done in my life.

Sorry to be so morbid in sight of your marriage, which I'm sure will go splendidly. Make sure both of you keep the sand out of your shoes.

 

[edgie]

Try and find Airbourne, if successful, worship them